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July 24, 2008

Summer Mixtape Volume 1: The Get Smart edition
Exit Art Gallery -
New York, NY USA United States of America

Long after the cassette tape has become an obsolete relic of a clumsier analog era, the essence of the mixtape lives on through CDs and MP3 playlists. Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition pays tribute to this vital form of popular expression with a group exhibition that compiles some of the hottest work from the New York area that the curators have seen all year. The exhibition runs from July 24 to August 29, 2008 at Exit Art in New York. Read Indepth Article
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Call for Artists: 10th International Juried Digital Print Competition and Exhibition
Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. -
Staten Island, NY USA United States of America

OPEN CALL for the 10th International Juried Digital Print Competition/Exhibition, organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI); seeking artists, designers, architects, technologists, and scientists to examine their environmental concerns, indulge their fantasies (sci-fi, etc.), and then share their fabricated/montaged digital visions of how a sustainable future on planet Earth might look. Read Indepth Article
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The Real and The Mythical: NYEIN CHAN SU
Karin Weber Gallery -
SoHo, HK Hong Kong

Karin Weber Gallery announces the opening of "The Real and The Mythical" works by Nyein Cha Su. Nats are spirits worshipped in Burma and every year the Burmese artist Nyein Chan Su visits the most famous Taung Pyone Nat Festival. Always keen as a child to join in the Nat dancing festival, the artist constantly returns to the Nat dancers as a source of inspiration. "I was totally inspired by those noises: violent and loud music sound, Nat songs, scent of flowers, strong odour of burning smelly sticks, smell of cigar & liquor..." Read Indepth Article
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MORE TO LOVE: The Art of living Together
ARTAIDS -
, TH Thailand

This year, ARTAIDS organize the art event “More to Love: The Art of Living Together” with collabora-
tions from government and non-government sections in order to raise the awareness on fighting with
stigma around HIV by using art and creative activities to convey the message of that we can live together
with HIV/AIDS. As well as, to create a new perception of HIV through various kinds of media, we have
more than 100 people who contribute in this project, including doctors, people living with HIV, NGO, art-
ists, curators, writers, art and cultural workers, musicians, actor and actress.
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Dangerous Women a Summer Group Exhibition
DFN Gallery -
New York, NY USA United States of America

DFN Gallery is pleased to present our summer group exhibition, Dangerous Women, inspired by the Rafael Perez series of the same name, featuring paintings, videos and mixed media images by 18 contemporary artists.
Although it sounds like the lurid title of a Jim Thompson crime novel, Dangerous Women is curated within the tradition of female figure painting, photography and cinema - where even the tamest representation of the female form can be a loaded image. While a few of the images exhibited are more obviously "dangerous" or risqué as in Alyssa Monk's Press, or Heather Morgan‚s Hello Kitty, none are passive and most run askew if not counter, to the literal meaning of dangerous women.
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Shake Down II
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I was writing about 3 weeks spent of a friends boat on lake Erie recreating watercolors lost in Argentina. A day or two after we got Alan's boat in the water I helped Markus get his new/old 40 foot + wooden sailboat over to his slip with no mishaps. A few days later he called me back and said he and a friend were going to take it out for a little shake down cruise. It was a fairly blustery day, sunny with 3 -4 foot swells. I hadn't actually made any watercolors yet and wanted to get started but decided I wanted to go with Markus on his new boat instead. It's a beauty for sure. Newly restored after an Ohio winter's worth of work in the back yard scraping, sanding and painting the hull and redoing much of the interior. I was supposed to help with some of the hand work but could never get free when Markus was able to work. So Markus did it all. I'm always impressed at his industrious nature, his knowledge and creative resolve. He did nearly all the work himself from bending wood to repair the hull breaches, painting and re-stitching sails. He's an ace at maintaining a motor and has refit his diesel to burn 30 percent bio-fuel. Remarkable! Normally I'd simply call this green thinking but in this market any saving is appreciated with the price of diesel often above $4.50 a gallon.
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